Holocaust Memorial Center
The Zekelman Family Holocaust Memorial Center (ZFHMC) in Farmington Hills , Michigan , was founded in 1984 by the Shaarit Haplaytah Organization under the direction of Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig as the first Holocaust museum in the USA .
It is considered a model for the Holocaust Center in Washington DC, the Tolerance Center in Los Angeles, California, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage Museum in New York. More than 2.5 million have visited the HMC since its inception. 1.6 million of them are pupils or students. In 2000 alone, 4,300 groups from Michigan, the Midwest, and Canada visited the museum. The museum shows the horrors of the persecution and extermination of the Jews in Europe by National Socialism . It also shows the highlights of a people's 2000-year history and culture.
With over 15,000 books and documents in different languages (English, German, Hebrew, Yiddish ...), 1,000 videos, numerous documents and microfilms, the center's library and archive are among the most important in the United States.
An Austrian memorial service can be performed in the museum .
Web links
- Holocaust Memorial Center (English)
Coordinates: 42 ° 30'7 " N , 83 ° 21'34.3" W.